Secret ballot process: JI set to elect new chief over 2-month period
Nominees are Munawwar Hasan, Sirajul Haque and Liaquat Baloch.
Current JI ameer Syed Munawwar Hasan. PHOTO: AFP
LAHORE:
Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) will elect its new Ameer or chief from among the three nominees including Syed Munawwar Hasan, Sirajul Haque and Liaquat Baloch.
The names have been proposed by the Central Majlis-e-Shura to guide the members, JI’s deputy secretary information Qaiser Sharif told Daily Express adding the Jamaat members were, however, free to vote for anyone they like.
About 32,400 card-holder JI members will elect their new Ameer through secret ballot process spanning over two months.
The announcement of the name of the new Ameer and the oath taking will take place in the first week of April.
According to the schedule the process will start on February 10, with dispatch of ballot papers from the central nazim-e-intikhab (election official) to the provincial offices that will forward them to JI offices at district level.
Members can cast their votes in the sealed box placed at district offices by March 20, while March 28 is the last date for returning the sealed ballot boxes from districts and provincial offices to the central office.
Qaiser Sharif said that it is the members who decide as to who they assign to be their Ameer and anyone who himself wants to get any office is disqualified.
He said no one is allowed lobbying or grouping or campaigning for himself.
Those who had become members by 31 December, 2013 are eligible to vote in the election.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 24th, 2014.
Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) will elect its new Ameer or chief from among the three nominees including Syed Munawwar Hasan, Sirajul Haque and Liaquat Baloch.
The names have been proposed by the Central Majlis-e-Shura to guide the members, JI’s deputy secretary information Qaiser Sharif told Daily Express adding the Jamaat members were, however, free to vote for anyone they like.
About 32,400 card-holder JI members will elect their new Ameer through secret ballot process spanning over two months.
The announcement of the name of the new Ameer and the oath taking will take place in the first week of April.
According to the schedule the process will start on February 10, with dispatch of ballot papers from the central nazim-e-intikhab (election official) to the provincial offices that will forward them to JI offices at district level.
Members can cast their votes in the sealed box placed at district offices by March 20, while March 28 is the last date for returning the sealed ballot boxes from districts and provincial offices to the central office.
Qaiser Sharif said that it is the members who decide as to who they assign to be their Ameer and anyone who himself wants to get any office is disqualified.
He said no one is allowed lobbying or grouping or campaigning for himself.
Those who had become members by 31 December, 2013 are eligible to vote in the election.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 24th, 2014.